Jonzi D discovered the power of dance, drama and storytelling growing up in East London in the 1970s and 80s. He’s gone on to create exciting platforms for people to explore the different manifestations of hip hop - breakdance, music, graffiti, rap, beatboxing and more. And to bring out inner feelings in movement, in expressions of joy and trauma, tension and release.

Jonzi calls it cultural energy and in his Breakin’ Convention festival at Sadlers Wells in London he’s been wowing audiences with this brand of hip hop theatre. Out of the festival, more exciting projects are growing and in a wide ranging conversation with Akram, Jonzi remembers his beginnings in the world of movement, his seminal video Aeroplane Man and how mind and body are occasionally at odds with each other.

Move to Live is a podcast brought to you by Marquee TV and Tandem Productions and is available on all main podcast platforms.

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Credits:

Director and Producer: Alex Anderson

Assistant Producer: Marion Bettsworth

Researcher: Charlotte Barbour-Condini

Executive Producer: Sarah Devonald

Music: Jay Witsey and Aref Durvesh

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Olivier Award-winning Actress and Director Kathryn Hunter is renowned for her work with physical theatre, notably with the pioneering theatre company Complicité, co-founded by her late husband Marcello Magni. She talks to Akram about her work with Marcello and how movement has always been a cornerstone of her approach to acting.

Shakespeare has also been a cornerstone of Kathryn’s career and she discusses her approach to playing the “Everest” of roles, King Lear, in two different productions spanning a 25 year timeframe. She also talks about how different stages make her move differently, and recalls how screenwriter Joel Cohen wanted her to combine the physicality of a crow combined with a standing stone for his film The Tragedy of Macbeth.

And Kathryn tells Akram how a serious accident left her with life-changing injuries but how this resulted in her thinking anew about how she could communicate physically.

Move to Live is a podcast brought to you by Marquee TV and Tandem Productions and is available on all main podcast platforms.

If you’d like to get in touch with the show you can email: movetolivepodcast@gmail.com

Or get in touch on our socials:

Twitter: @marqueeartstv

Instagram: @marqueeartstv

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marqueetv

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@MarqueeTV

The show is also available as a video podcast via Marquee TV - https://marquee.tv/, the leading streaming platform showcasing arts and culture to millions of arts fans around the world.

#movetolivepodcast

Credits:

Director and Producer: Alex Anderson

Assistant Producer: Marion Bettsworth

Researcher: Charlotte Barbour-Condini

Executive Producer: Sarah Devonald

Music: Jay Witsey and Aref Durvesh

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Francesca Hayward joined the Royal Ballet in London at the age of eighteen and since 2016 she has been a Principal dancer. She talks to Akram about her grandmother buying her a ballet video aged three, how the stories she saw enveloped her, and the drama of dance became her all-consuming passion.

She says ‘as a small person’ she likes to surprise people by using the stage to the max – her big jumps ‘eating up the space’ and feeling like flying. And how although she doesn’t enjoy swimming on the surface of water, underwater she feels at home, ‘like a fish’.

And Francesca opens up to Akram about the way she gets her body and mind into gear as she prepares to be confident and calm for a performance.

Move to Live is a podcast brought to you by Marquee TV and Tandem Productions and is available on all main podcast platforms.

If you’d like to get in touch with the show you can email: movetolivepodcast@gmail.com

Or get in touch on our socials:

Twitter: @marqueeartstv

Instagram: @marqueeartstv

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marqueetv

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@MarqueeTV

The show is also available as a video podcast via Marquee TV - https://marquee.tv/, the leading streaming platform showcasing arts and culture to millions of arts fans around the world.

#movetolivepodcast

Credits:

Director and Producer: Alex Anderson

Assistant Producer: Marion Bettsworth

Researcher: Charlotte Barbour-Condini

Executive Producer: Sarah Devonald

Music: Jay Witsey and Aref Durvesh

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.